NISE Net partners and other guests, including Art|Sci Center's director Victoria Vesna, will gather to discuss the questions and challenges that we face in the field of nanotechnology education.
Join a group of artists from New York visiting Los Angeles for an exhibition downtown at the Outpost for Contemporary Art.
A discussion on participatory mapping with Lucy Hg from The League of Imaginary Scientists, media artists Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga, and xtine.
X, Y, Z, and U is an exhibition and series of discussions and workshops featuring the mapping projects of artists whose creative practices resemble field research and scientists who use DIY tactics and creative visualization to map scientific information. The exhibition and related community-based activities are scheduled throughout June at Outpost for Contemporary Art, and organized in partnership with apexart and The League of Imaginary Scientists.
Ecological concepts of continuity and interdependence are renegade forces. They not only transform existing patterns of material consumption and production, they destabilize social values and disrupt aesthetic conventions. Even the notion of beauty is overhauled by the ecological mandate to embrace all aspects of the life cycle – decay as well as growth. Artists who demonstrate radical beauty are renegade aestheticists. They demonstrate that the greening of society depends as much upon revising human values as reforming human behaviors.
The answer is most definitely the latter for the group of Nobel Prize winning scientists currently discussing climate change as part of the Nobel Laureate Symposium in London. But they are open to persuasion.
A distinct nod to art was given in the form of a cultural evening when the some of the world's greatest physicists and chemists encountered performance poets, cartoonists and architects in a bid to understand what art can contribute to the issue of climate change.
In the video above, the great and the good explain what science can learn from art.
In this informal gathering, UCLA Art | Science center director Victoria Vesna presents the concept, research and work of the recently established center housed in two locations – Broad Art center and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). She is joined by co-chairs of the Leonardo Education Forum, Ellen Levy, Andrea Polli, Nina Czegledy and guests. Together they will discuss some of the most recent activities, challenges and opportunities that this internationally oriented organization is involved in. After this, Victoria will lead a tour of the NANO exhibition she co-created with nanoscientist James Gimzewski, followed by tea reception mixer where ideas and contacts will be exchanged and the launch of the Filter magazine published by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT). The edition will be on Interdisciplinarity – specifically as such a practice relates to art and science collaborations.
1400 – Arrival at Science Center -- Science in the Café.
1430 – Presentation: UCLA Art | Science center & Leonardo Education Forum
1530 – Tour of NANO Exhibition by Victoria Vesna
1600 – Tea Reception
1630 - Filter launch
1800 – Departure from Science Centre
